Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes to pitch and demo live, in front of…
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Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups |
6:00 AM PDT · April 9, 2026 Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund…
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’ |
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup…
Exclusive: Mariana Minerals taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine |
There is a lot of attention on domestic manufacturing in the United States these days. But for Turner Caldwell, who spent nearly a decade at…
CoComelon studio Moonbug partners with the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA to Bring Child Development Research into Online Video for Kids
New research-backed learning principles to be applied across Moonbug’s flagship series, including CoComelon, Blippi, and Little Angel and their spin-offs /PRNewswire/ — Moonbug Entertainmenta global…
Poke makes AI agents as easy as sending a text |
Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That’s the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access…
Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’ |
Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah,…
Final 3 days to save up to $500 on your Disrupt 2026 pass |
Youdon’tattendTechCrunch Disruptto sit in the audience. You go to gain leverage.Whether 2026 is a build, fundraise, hire, or scale year, this is where momentum compounds.…
VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups |
It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo…